Sports

The cream of the country’s racquet wielders will be on show this week at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall when the Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) hosts its seniors and U-21 tournament on March 10-11.

-as Australia extend lead to 506 DURBAN, South Africa, (Reuters) – Phillip Hughes  powered to his second century of the match as Australia extended  their lead over South Africa to 506 at the close on the third  day of the second test at Kingsmead  yesterday.

Three national rugby players have been named to the West Indies Rugby 12-member squad which will participate in the International Rugby Board (iRB) Hong Kong Sevens tournament which begins later this month.

WELLINGTON,  (Reuters) – Sachin Tendulkar’s 43rd  one-day international century hoisted India to a 2-0 series  lead over New Zealand with a 58-run victory in Christchurch yesterday.

Demerara retain U-15 titleDefending champions Demerara easily retained their Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/Castrol U-15 Inter-County title when they defeated arch rivals Berbice by seven wickets on the Duckworth/Lewis system in the final round match yesterday.

Colin Ming emerged winner of Saturday’s General Equipment Medal Play Golf tournament at the Lusignan Golf Course.

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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – West Indies suffered a setback, after making a bright start in their reply to England’s big first innings total in the fifth and final Test on Saturday.

Wins for Pistons and Ravens As expected, Dyna’s Ravens of Georgetown and Linden’s Wismar Pistons were the first two teams to chalk up victory, when this year’s Next Level Entertainment (NLE) basketball tournament bounced off last Friday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

By Tony Cozier At the Queen’s  Park Oval FOR all of the drudgery of the opening day – and the futile finale at Kensington Oval – as many as 10,000 were drawn to the Queen’s Park Oval yesterday in the hope of some genuine Test cricket.

The executive committee of Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) has expressed their disappointment at the failure of Mavericks Cricket Club (MCC) to put in an appearance for their scheduled Zone A sixth round clash in the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/ Gafoors sponsored first division 20/20 competition last Friday.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Mar 7, CMC – Narsingh Deonarine carved out his sixth first-class hundred and second this season to give Guyana control against Combined Campuses & Colleges on the second day of their ninth round WICB Regional Four-day yesterday.

Alpha and Camptown book semi-final spots – Last two quarterfinals to be contested tonight Alpha United and Sunburst Camptown were the first two teams to make it into the semi-final round of the 14th annual Mayor’s Cup Knockout Competition powered by Digicel when they won their quarter-final matches on Friday at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) ground.

DURBAN, (Reuters) – South Africa batsmen Graeme Smith and Jacques Kallis had to visit the hospital, as fiery Australia paceman Mitchell Johnson caused havoc on the second day of the second test on Saturday.

Inspired no doubt by his convincing victory in the recent Cheddi Jagan Memorial cycle road race in Berbice, Warren ‘Forty’ Mc Kay returned yesterday to dominate the field in the feature race of the 18th Annual R&R International sponsored cycling programme around the inner circuit of the National Park.

Host Guyana and the Combined Campuses and Colleges (CCC) were locked in a tight battle for first innings points at the end of the first day of their ninth round West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Regional four-day  match at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC) ground yesterday.

Two of boxing most aggressive fighters will be in action tonight on Direct TV in Home Boxing Organisation’s (HBO) World championships boxing.

By Rawle Toney McKenzie High School (MHS) and the Linden Technical Institute (LTI) are set to meet in the finals of the Ministry of Sport Linden inter-schools basketball tournament after capturing resounding victories in their semi-final action yesterday at the McKenzie Sports Club ground.

Demerara to face Berbice this weekend Defending champions Demerara will square off with their nemesis Berbice today and tomorrow in the final two matches of this year’s Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/Castrol sponsored Under-15 Inter-county tournament at the Guyana National Stadium, Providence from 09:30hrs.

-says Kevin Mc Kenzie United Kingdom-based Guy-anese rugby player Kevin McKenzie will join two of his countrymen and West Indian counterparts in Canada en route to the prestigious International Rugby Board (IRB) sponsored Hong Kong series starting March 27.